skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting topic, but I find the writing to be pretentious and obnoxious. I'm from the lower saxony part of that region and Walpurgis is just a big drinking festival nowadays. The harz mountain has a lot of germanic/paganic traditions that still have some cultural imprint to this day (e.g. Krodo). But I mean, saxons were never that big of a fan of christianity anyway.
Ah yes, the cloud, where network interconnect issues simply do not exist, and extra capacity is always available, and the budget never runs dry, and configuration is not required, and technicians and engineers are always available.

Can I have a puff of whatever it is you smoked to reach this cloud?
The title is a bit misleading since the article is about using a paper notepad.
Stringer Bell said it best: "is you taking notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy?"
(need storage too though that's more a cost problem than a space problem)
It'll be interesting to see the impact of "instant settlement" systems that are based around ISO20022 like FedNow, PromptPay, Osko and others.

If my bank can offer direct instant settlement between my account and another person's, then why do I need any other services? If they can associate my account with a line of credit, why do I need a Visa/MC and why do they need to pay the network and interchange fees?

I my on-phone secure element (ie the "wallet") can support an app that is not EMV with all of it's legacy complexities, then why keep all that infrastructure?

All of that goes away.
Hey, you could buy all the vinegar you wanted...
Hope you don't need anything else, though.
I doubt you meant that literally, but just to illustrate the gap, let's consider what it would require for just one glassing.

World land area is ~149,000,000 km².

Acknowledged nuclear warheads are ~13,000.

So the average single warhead would somehow need to "glass"--however, thoroughly or deeply you choose to define that--over 11,000 km². For context, that's about one US state of Connecticut or the nation of Qatar.

... So you might say I'm a "glass is nowhere even close to half-full" kinda guy.
Why does webdev feel so bloated?
There is certainly a market for smaller turbines in remote locations where it’s harder to maintain grid access, or any other scenario where pure $/W is not the only factor.
Punishing them solely for their success is unfair. If power accumulated through capturing natural monopolies is the issue, then we need to address that directly with public funding of open source and decentralized alternatives that can become the market standard. Not punish people who fill the gaps the public left, by effectively providing essential services.
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I'd reach for Nerves.

https://nerves-project.org/
Wouldn't be surprised. One startup I worked at launched their entire own separate private chat app/company and all of the execs and early employees used exclusively that software to communicate with each other, rather than email or the company slack.
Show HN: I built a keyword research tool without a monthly subscription
Hi HN!

My name is Yossi, and I'm a solo indie maker.

SEO tools are super pricey and free tools often fall short, leaving most users to costly subscription-based tools.

So, I built SEO Stuff, a keyword tool that uses a credit-based system for builders like me who use SEO more sporadically.

Have a great day!
Google Fit is being replaced by Goolge Fitbit, but as usual with Google what is really happening is Google is one by one replacing the sections of the original Fitbit app with the Google Fit interface. The first thing that got replaced is the Fitbit Sleep tracking, and believe me when I say what Google did is an abomination in terms of UI/UX design. The previous Fitbit sleep tracking screen was near perfection of readability and clarity. The new one is Google's usual form-over-function design language where the most important metric (weekly-view sleep score) is hidden and requires many taps to access.
A person researching cancer doesn't need to do it because they're desperate to pay off the mortgage. They can do it because it's interesting, or a personal challenge. There are a lot of people with advanced degrees now - we don't need to put enormous pressure on a few of them.
Case studies from the 80s, as productivity started improving again in the 90s.

I can actually remember Alan Greenspan discussing this, despite how young I was.
>Requiring the installation of analog AM radios in automobiles is an unnecessary action that would impact EV range, efficiency and affordability at a critical moment of accelerating adoption

That is advanced stupid.
it is wild how often people will respond with red scare rhetoric once the scary c-word drops.
Well.. long press on tablet and select new tab but I get what you mean.
Don't forget that CSS animations are hardware accelerated. If you're doing trig in JS for animations, you're probably also manipulating the DOM to update the UI every millisecond, which is very expensive
Um. They showed how much fuel was remaining and it was empty. Just some back of the napkin math shows they used far less delta-v to get to their test flight, with no payload, and ran out of fuel. That doesn’t bode well.
Ask HN: I'm leaving a startup I helped build soon, how can I protect myself?
Hi HN,

For the past year, I've been working as the sole developer of a product together with a cofounder who has a sales/marketing background.

We haven't signed an official contract, but we do have an agreement in writing (texts) about what the equity split is.

I've done a lot of work on this and we're now ready to go live with the product.

However, I'd like to take a step back from the product over the next year as I'm going back to study and I want to focus on other interests. I'm open to still being involved, just not as an active developer.

What are my options here for ensuring that if this startup is successful and gets sold, I still get a significant piece of the pie? Our equity split is 50-50.
Given enough time, a shell midden becomes limestone.

Children of a future civilization might not find out anything about our culture or language, but they are definitely going to know that we loved oysters. Meanwhile, their scientists will argue about what kind of iron-rich oysters are responsible for the remains of reinforced concrete along our prehistoric shores and rivers.
When the state does it, it's not ponzi until the state implodes and then it is.
Strange, because put this way, it should be entirely positive - widespread benefits and concentrated drawbacks are what we want to happen, as it benefits more people and concentrated problems are much easier to manage. What's very bad is when benefits are concentrated (often in the hands of a small group), and drawbacks are widespread, and therefore near-impossible to manage. See e.g. pollution, emissions...

... and outsourcing. The benefits are concentrated: profits captured by the companies doing the outsourcing. Sure, they may sometimes trickle down to the consumer, but the costs - the distributed drawbacks - are inferior quality of goods, elimination of local jobs, high ecological footprint, abusive business practices, lack of effective customer support. And the extra magic here is, it spreads direct responsibility over national borders, so it's near-impossible to hold anyone to account.
As long as Supremacist elements among the Griffons aren't planning an invasion of Equus, all is well, and maybe Harmonism as a political system may prevail: https://equestriaatwar.wiki.gg/wiki/World_Map_and_Geography

(sure, the lore is darker than MLP, but at least it isn't W40K dark)
Subscene's Demise Is No Surprise but App Users Face Disruption
Thanks for the info, i knew the comments would turn up some gold!
Is this something like a superoptimizer? looks cool!
I can be sure it is not used against me. I avoid of course using American services directly, only through their European entities.
If you let third party stranger to offer GPU resource, how do you deal with:

1. Privacy. An attacker can set up a GPU honey pot and and sell the data they got.

2. Fake GPU computation. An attacker can fake GPU and send back dummy data sometimes to reduce the computation.

3. Corrupt GPU. Practically same with 2. But not malicious intent. It's just the faulty GPU.
Amazing tool for chess players!

I wish I had it back in the days when I was playing in lots of offline tournaments. I could have saved so many hours with your app
Couple of years ago EU already slashed maximum fees (in the EU) and now it's about 0,2% or something like that...

Most likely because of that there are no "benefits" tied to CC nowadays here...
I like that it's without a subscription. I don't need SEO research all the time, only when I consider a new project.
That's respect for Maori culture. Which pretty lame for country so pragmatic and atheistic.

Maori science [0] is being reintroduced in schools too. And while it's not some woowoo science it still feels forced, almost like a brand for big corps.

There's 0% Maori culture in my day to day life unless it's some business trying to be hip (see: AirNZ cabin safety videos).

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mātauranga_Māori
I just remember Bolivia. The silver and other metals from Bolivia funded the Spanish Empire for 200 years or more. And every ordinary person is poor and the infrastructure is ramshackle.
"You criticize society yet you are participating in one. How hypocritical. I am very smart"

You might know the meme. This is you enacting it.
> How many people live in homes built over one hundred years ago?

Many people in Europe's historical city centres.
pōtana's bhāgavataṁ, if you can read Telugu.
So they're providing financial incentives to executives who don't disclose breaches in security?

This is terrible.
US prepares to exempt AUKUS nations from ITAR
Last commit: 8 years ago.
Damn, looks pretty nice, will definitely give it a shot
llama.cpp isn't a model though.
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Show HN: I gamified exam questions with AI
I'm studying for my A Levels (UK highschool) and I didn't like that the results of practice exam questions I completed were not being recorded anywhere. So I created this GPT 4 powered study platform that picks out the concepts students struggle with from the markschemes of questions they complete, making it easier for them to target their revision. Furthermore, students can select a point they got wrong and immediately generate a flashcard or explanation for the content.
Thanks, Tom.
States can voluntarily choose to have a unified certification process, exactly to enjoy the economies of scale you are describing.

> I also can't wait for the cross-state litigation when an upstream state's equivalent of the EPA will be paid off to allow a firm to dump toxic waste into a river, that will be poisoning the people downstream.

How much is that happening between eg Canada and the US at the moment?
Technically we don't know the mean deaths per TWh, only the mean death per produced TWh so far, giving that the waste is such a long term problem.
Honestly the Fitbit UI has always been terrible, so they are only making it worse than terrible.
Sounds like his plan was:

“With Bitcoin I can hide anywhere and access my fortune with just a password!”

…But he made such a public deal out of it that some criminals figured they can access a fortune by kidnapping this guy and making him reveal the password.
Officially move the product to a company, add a management contract with voting rights, amounts etc; try to get someone you both trust on board so you don’t get deadlocked over every tiny thing if you two disagree. I did this a few times, even with co founders I actually never met irl; it works well as long as there is a framework and clear expectations and clear limits on what the other can do by themselves or what needs a majority.
Who says they're even looking? Being able to contact them would tell you right away whether they simply overlooked you or whether you don't yet meet some criteria (which they might actually tell you).
Exactly! Spending $99+ every month is a lot of money for many people! (myself included)

Glad you like it!
Or heaps of same tuna cans if stars aligned. You want what? Bananas for your kids? Lol come next week, stand in the queue in freezing cold for 3 hours on sunday early morning, and maybe you will get lucky. Lemons are only available via family or communist party contacts.

Or waiting 5 years for the option to buy a car (of course no say in the color or equipment, take it or leave). Or 2 years for sofa FFS, who cares you don't like the shape, color or material. If you think this is funny, I gave examples from my own childhood, and could go on for a very long time.

Centrally planned economies really don't work well. On top of clusterfuck that communism consistently was by itself.
> Perhaps there was an option of multi-speed Europe and perhaps it will perform better in maintaining peace in Europe, but it wasn't chosen. It was decided to integrate all the Eastern Europe into the EU.

That decision came late in the process, and wasn't something that was thought to be viable at the start. To say that it was certain from the start is just plain wrong.

> We need(ed) a very different kind of integration, one that EU has failed to follow. Putin was practically betting his first two terms on that it will happen, but EU turned out too stiff. It's a question of civilization and cultural choice and not some common market and farmer subsidies.

Exactly what I said: expectation of a special treatment. Russia simply has never wanted to become a normal European country like the rest, because it has imperialistic delusions about cultural superiority, which come in the way of pursuing pragmatic and mutually beneficial relations. Imagine if Germans still held on to their ideas of superiority and saw Danes, Poles, Czechs, Austrians, and others as lesser people, and threatened to invade if their governments did anything Germans didn't like. Willingness to let go of imperialist mindset and adopt humanist values is a crucial step in entering the European family of countries, and the change can only come from within.

> We don't care about common market and all that bullshit. We also don't need your money as other young EU members do.

Calling the common market or other key areas of European cooperation "bullshit" is a sign of deep immaturity. Common agricultural policy, joint customs rules or harmonized food safety standards are not as sexy as fantasies of "bashing in heads of other countries", but serve the people better. But ultimately, I don't care that you don't care. It's your life that is worse off as a result of that, not mine.

> You are interested in integration with Russia because otherwise Russia will continue to bash in heads of other countries over their integration with EU, among other things. Basically, because we can and want to go to war over it.

Not at all. For the longest time, Europe expected Russia to grow into a normal, healthy society that could become a part of pan-European cooperation sooner or later. Bombing each others cities is simply not the way European leaders think or expect others to think and act when it comes to resolving political conflicts in Europe. Nobody ever thinks about calling their military leaders for advice when they are stuck in disagreements with other countries over fishing policies. That's why the attack on Ukraine was such a surprise: it is not a brilliant power move, but unbelievable stupidity that puts you on track of reliving the 1990s again. That's the great irony of Putinism - for all the bitterness and resentment towards Gorbachev and fall of the USSR, he has cursed the country into going through that once more.
To be precise, the first study mentioned is from 2011, then 1989, 1987, then studies done in the 1990's.
Feel? It is. Well, if you use the popular frameworks that is.
Maybe a little different. For narrow enough definitions of "clothing," homemade clothing can be good. And there are other artisanal homemade crafts (e.g. woodworking) that can be good. But I agree in general.
I started using xmake a few days ago. Not sure if I will use it for new projects (due to CMake being the standard) but I definitely want to. The workflow is amazing and super fast. You just run `xmake create` and it creates your project. Then you can just run xmake and boom, it compiles it in an instant, linking dependencies, without needing to create a CMakeLists.txt, adding a submodule for every dependency you use, including your dependency's cmake file, blah blah (xmake has its own xrepo tool which allows for dependency management in a MUCH easier way)
I think you really ought to justify your use of the terminology "natural monopoly". To the extent that such a thing exists, is this not exactly what we have anti-trust laws to prevent?

It seems to me that we can, have, and should punish people for success if that success is likely to lead to well known kinds of market failure, and that such a policy is generally non-controversial outside of the most extreme forms of libertarian political philosophies (which unfortunately, are disproportionately prevalent in big tech and likely to get the whole industry in serious hot water).

Certainly, you could make the same "natural monopoly" argument against just about every serious anti-trust action that has taken place in the past. It didn't work then and I don't think its going to work now.

Pretending that closed platforms that exist on computer networks (and are not themselves networks) somehow makes this all different is not very convincing. Network effects, as we've come to understand the term, are not new, and have existed before computer networks. To the extent they exist, it's evidence of need for intervention because of a clear failure of a market to self regulate (what some may call a "natural" or just a regular monopoly) and maintain a competitive market, not evidence that everything is okay.

I also seriously take issue with the idea that Google provides an "essential service". Power, food, water, and you could make an argument for computer and communications infrastructure, are "essential". Google search is not. If it disappeared, society would soldier on and we would all be fine. At worst it would be a minor inconvenience for users and a headache for IT departments and developers.
Anyone who grew up in France will fondly remember Duralex glasses - made of thick tempered glass, they are practically indestructible. They're still available, they just fell out of fashion because capitalism affords us the luxury of choice. Consumers prioritise factors other than durability, because they can afford to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duralex

Here in the UK (and I believe in the US) there was a peculiar fad in the 1970s for gas stations to give away a free glass with the purchase of a tank of fuel. Such profligacy would be unimaginable under communism, not for any philosophical reason, but simply because they lacked the productive capacity.
yeah a big part of it was developers offloading some administrative responsibilities, which ends up as a loss of power.
Flags Are Not Languages
I'm utterly appalled at how vigorously people are defending Google here. These are not the good guys. These aren't deserving of extra protection from the rabble. They can defend themselves in court with the billions of dollars they have. The kind of power and influence Google wields requires a higher standard. It's not being punished for success. It's ensuring that success doesn't allow them to subvert the law whenever they want. God forbid we have a functioning justice system anywhere.
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I know Azure has a confidential computing offering for GPUs, which I'm hoping will get broader uptake soon. It seems like the best way to address these concerns to me.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-confidential-co...
Here's another fascinating article about the cultural struggles faced by TSMC in order to expand in Phoenix: https://restofworld.org/2024/tsmc-arizona-expansion/
People who think that AM radio is useless in the modern era, have clearly never lived in a city with a 50,000 watt AM station that has extremely regular traffic updates. Info on crashes, bridge and tunnel problems, etc reported by a local who knows all of the choke points and common problem areas is very valuable, particularly because you can get it hands-free without needing to look at an app on a phone or on a car screen.

And often more reliable and better than just relying on a navigation app to route you around bad traffic.

In the Pacific Northwest you will also get updates on border traffic between Washington and BC, and also WA and BC ferry information.
You have people here defending Google. So, apparently the average jack off is okay with a two tiered system.
What if the person who stole it doesn't want to give it back? What if that person has their own group of friends-with-weapons?

We now a standoff between your private army and someone else's. Seems like an extraordinary inefficient way to achieve justice. (And, one that will likely end up being quite deadly for all parties involved.)
Critical information which commenters here are missing:

> The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure *required* Google to suspend its auto-delete practices
in mid-2019, when the company reasonably anticipated this litigation.

> Google did not.

> Instead, as described above, Google abdicated its burden to individual custodians to preserve potentially relevant chats. Few, if any, document custodians did so. That is, few custodians, if any, manually changed, on a chat-by-chat basis, the history default from off to on. This means that for nearly four years, Google systematically destroyed an entire category of written communications every
24 hours.
You can use a preshared dictionary with bzip2 and zstd so you can get that down alot by using different dictionaries depending on certain rules. I dont know if it helps with literature but I had great success in sending databases with free text like that. In the end it was easier to just use one dictionary for everything and just skip the rules.
XSS is unique to PHP? Wait a minute while I go check with OWASP.
Fritz Zwicky discovered Dark Matter. Rubin thought she discovered Dark Matter, because she wasn't aware of Zwicky's paper written in German many years before Rubin's paper.

edit: I have a PhD in Astronomy, with a focus on Dark Matter, and I measured rotation curves of galaxies myself.
Thanks for the answer, probably a good idea to include some version of this in the footnote.
Lower transaction fees, available to people without USD bank accounts (most of the World), and you can use smart contracts for more complex transactions than sender -> receiver.

I’m very bearish on crypto generally, but DeFi has started to catch my attention a little bit, as it does have potential to shake up finance more broadly.